Calidad de vida del profesorado universitarioel desgaste profesional. (Propuesta metodológica y resultados)

Abstract

The Psychosocial occupational hazards have become an increasing concern both in social and health terms due to their various consequences. One such risk is the risk of burnout, which concerns above all health professionals. The paper deals with the preparation and development of the study and analysis of the quality of life at university. This analysis has been carried out from the general perspective of the burnout process among university lecturers at three Spanish universities, with a total staff of 9,235 university lecturers in the Autonomous Regions of Madrid, Catalonia and Aragon (Autonomous Zaragoza). The general objective of this project is the assessment of professional burnout among university lecturers understood as a process. The more specific aims of this project are determining the prevalence of burnout among the university lecturers in the aforementioned three universities, based on the criteria of the �Maslach Burnout Inventory- General Survey� (MBI-GS); the assessment and analysis of the specific antecedent factors leading to university lecturer burnout; and the assessment and analysis of the professional and personal consequences of burnout, as well as of the personal elements included in the project. The second and third parts of the project have been carried out using a specific assessment tool developed by our own research team. The application has been prepared on a PDA with the corresponding program, which facilitates data confidentiality and the effective management of the process. The methodology employed was the application of the MBI-GS, and other tools elaborated together with experts (questions borrowed from other internationally well-known questionnaires or developed by our research team), to a representative random sample of university lecturers in each of the aforementioned universities (1212 lecturers), depending on the different teaching staff categories at each university.